Champions Online F2P in the first quarter of 2011

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
No, that's what it used to say on Fileplanet too.
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Slabs
Slabs
Since 7211 Days
Still messing with different powersets.

Electricity and Fire are very overpowered at the moment, Shockstorm with the toggle is like having a genocide button. Melée based sets really suffer in MilCity unless you play defensively, which makes it seem even more out of balance.

Oh and I love that if you invoke Earth Flight in midair you fly on clouds.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
My first toon:




This game seems like a worthy follow up to City of Heroes, but I still think it has a lot of pitfalls. It's nice to see that they've picked up on some of Warhammer's better concepts and implemented them into their game. Public questing, instance queues.. but the lack of a large persistent world sorta kills it for me. I am enjoying it though, and their subscription model (which is offering packages if I remember correctly, including six to twelve month packages and lifetime subs) is better than most. I still take up issue with the cost of these games when you have to pay in monthly installments on top of it though; the clients should be free!

Still.. I might be tempted into a six month sub.. just to keep playing with the character creation :P

Also: I take back what I said about respec. I'm dumb.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
Damn you server maintenance! Damn you to hell!
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 6948 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
Still.. I might be tempted into a six month sub.. just to keep playing with the character creation :P
Don't forget Access to the Star Trek Online Closed Beta :P
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Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2

FireWire - IEEE 1394
FireWire
Since 7181 Days
I created another character yesterday this time focussing on double sword melee...
Very nice melee combat that seems to be fairly powerful.
I took the teleportation travel power! It's very fast since you can keep spamming it and you're able just to teleport out of hot situations....

It's also pretty funny with what people come up with.. I've seen Samus Aran running around, the Tick and these guys:

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"Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherf*cker in the valley"

"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire"

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
Posted by Isomac
Don't forget Access to the Star Trek Online Closed Beta :P
I won't pre-order. I don't want to pay $50 for a game and $60+ for a sub.

I'm loving how you can respec everything, but you can not respec your basic stats, correct (strength, dex, etc)? You can even create new costumes for your character and share them with your friends. I think that's a simply terrific feature. I imagine within a week of this game going live there will be costume websites out there :)
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 6948 Days
So if I understood right from what Grift said I can share my characters costumes with using images? It's accessible from the tailor menu and then save and load I think.

If someone wants to try if it works here is mine:



I am not sure if using tinypic will make it not to work since it renames the file. I'll post the second character when I am happy how she looks. Now it's kinda like random + a bit tweaking.

I tried the game with controller too and while its surprisingly good there is some strange issues. Like if there is 2 items next to each other I can't lift it with controller. Because the confirmation "key" is digital pad up and in this situation it just keeps selecting what to pick up. I didn't really try but seems like I can't access any of the menus with the controller either. Then again I sit so close to keyboard I can just use it quickly when needed.
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Slabs
Slabs
Since 7211 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
I'm loving how you can respec everything, but you can not respec your basic stats, correct (strength, dex, etc)?
Incorrect, you can only respec your last ten levels at the moment, however if you are under level ten you can also choose to redo your basic stats as well.

I would guess that the full respec will be one of the microtransactions that they offer when the game goes live, along with renames.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
Posted by Slabs
Incorrect, you can only respec your last ten levels at the moment, however if you are under level ten you can also choose to redo your basic stats as well.

I would guess that the full respec will be one of the microtransactions that they offer when the game goes live, along with renames.
Ew. That's horrible. That's easily no better than Scamco or EA selling unlockable items on the XBL Marketplace. It's borderline pathetic.
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Slabs
Slabs
Since 7211 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
Ew. That's horrible. That's easily no better than Scamco or EA selling unlockable items on the XBL Marketplace. It's borderline pathetic.
That is just my speculation. Mind you it isn't much different from the current policy of charging for server transfers etc. in other MMOs.
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INDIGO
INDIGO
Since 7883 Days
Yeah controller support isn't 100% yet but the game plays great with one otherwise.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
Posted by Slabs
That is just my speculation. Mind you it isn't much different from the current policy of charging for server transfers etc. in other MMOs.
Yea.. but monetizing make believe shit when you're already charging a monthly fee is pretty damn awful regardless.
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 6948 Days
Nice I found defender fan in front of the comic shop.


Nice games Fire! Those healing robots were awesome.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
I have to give Cryptic a lot of credit for the LOST references in this game :P
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Slabs
Slabs
Since 7211 Days
The TV station mission in Millenium City has a familiar tone to it as well.

I guess the parodies make sense as Champions was originally conceived to parody (and avoid the licensing costs) of Marvel and DC.
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Slabs
Slabs
Since 7211 Days
XP rewards for quests have been dramatically reduced :(

Apparently some give only a quarter of what they used to!
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 6948 Days
Nice you can get to lvl 40 by talking to the commander dude at Millennium City's helipad.
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Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2

Slabs
Slabs
Since 7211 Days
Posted by Isomac
Nice you can get to lvl 40 by talking to the commander dude at Millennium City's helipad.
Yup, robot invasion starts in a couple of hours! :)
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 6948 Days
Yeah, I cant wait to destroy some huge robots!
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Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2

Slabs
Slabs
Since 7211 Days
Posted by Isomac
Yeah, I cant wait to destroy some huge robots!
They are up now but good lord is it a clusterfuck of epic proportions. I don't think they thought through maxing everyone to level 40 because the powerhouse is full of people speccing up and heading out with all the insane powers that are alright in a small team but in an open area like MilCity they kill playability before any mobs!!!
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FireWire - IEEE 1394
FireWire
Since 7181 Days
Here are some images from the Robots:

Say Cheese:


Isomac is the guy with the bow in the background:


The robot is giving Iso some payback
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"Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherf*cker in the valley"

"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire"

INDIGO
INDIGO
Since 7883 Days
Power Armor eh?
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Isomac
Isomac
Since 6948 Days
Hah probably just after you took that screenshot I was taking some road rash (or asphalt burn not sure what the word is in English)!
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Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7181 Days
They re-extended the beta period until 5PM today, neat. The only problem is I sorta blew my free lvl 40. I can't respec, and if I wanted to re-roll I have to play the tediously long tutorial again.
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